Tag: Loneliness

7 Tips For Making Friends When You’re Feeling Depressed

Published: October 2, 2025 | By | 6 Replies Continue Reading
7 Tips For Making Friends When You’re Feeling Depressed

Understandably, It’s tough to make friends when you’re feeling depressed but here are some tips from a psychologist to help.

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Loneliness, Depression, and Pain: A Challenging Mix

Published: June 14, 2025 | Last Updated: June 14, 2025 By | 12 Replies Continue Reading
Loneliness, Depression, and Pain: A Challenging Mix

The combination of depression, loneliness and pain can be difficult to handle. Checking in with a doctor is an important first step.

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Raised By Wolves: Is Having No Friends Her Mother’s Fault?

Published: January 3, 2025 | Last Updated: April 27, 2025 By | 5 Replies Continue Reading
Raised By Wolves: Is Having No Friends Her Mother’s Fault?

A woman feels like she was raised by wolves. Can she blame it on her parenting? What can she do to get out of the rut?

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How To Get Over The Holidays With No Friends or Family

Published: December 9, 2024 | Last Updated: July 24, 2026 By | 36 Replies Continue Reading
How To Get Over The Holidays With No Friends or Family

No friends or family around? Feeling alone? Here are 14 ideas to buoy your spirits and get you over the holiday hump

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Quarantine Fatigue: Single, No Work and No Travel

Published: June 4, 2020 | Last Updated: October 21, 2025 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading
Quarantine Fatigue: Single, No Work and No Travel

Like many of us feeling a sense of quarantine fatigue, a 60-year-old reader feels alone while maintaining social distance with no end in sight.

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A man experiences loneliness after a loss

Published: February 2, 2017 | Last Updated: February 3, 2017 By | 7 Replies Continue Reading

It’s understandable to feel friendless and lonely after a loss.

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Reader Wisdom: On Loneliness Over The Holidays

Published: December 8, 2015 | Last Updated: April 11, 2024 By | 20 Replies Continue Reading
Reader Wisdom: On Loneliness Over The Holidays

On a thread called “Why Would Someone Have No Friends?,” a reader commented that she felt lonely and isolated over the holidays. Many people feel that way at this time of year. She wrote: …I don’t have a family. No parents, no siblings. None. My cousins are all over the world, and since we were […]

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Feeling lonely? 14 Tips for getting over the holiday hump

Published: December 6, 2015 | Last Updated: January 9, 2016 By | 7 Replies Continue Reading
Feeling lonely? 14 Tips for getting over the holiday hump

The holiday season can be depressing if you are feeling lonely or dispirited while everyone else seems joyous and happy.

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Reader Wisdom: On Chronic Pain and Friendship

Published: August 19, 2015 | Last Updated: September 28, 2023 By | 12 Replies Continue Reading
Reader Wisdom: On Chronic Pain and Friendship

A reader with chronic pain explains the friendship challenges she faces.

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100 Simple Ways To Have More Friends

Published: August 16, 2015 | Last Updated: May 11, 2025 By | 23 Replies Continue Reading
100 Simple Ways To Have More Friends

My friend and colleague Cherie Burbach has just written a new book about friendship, 100 Simple Ways to Have More Friends.

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